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altcunningham said:
I made the mistake of clicking the video.

Dont do that.
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That's how I found out. Saw the clip without any context before I'd heard the story and yeah- it's gnarly. Almost didn't look real, but it's amazing what the body can do.

Look, I don't wish harm on (almost) anyone. It certainly feels a bit weird to cheer for someone's death. But if it was gonna happen to anyone, the guy who says "a few deaths each year are necessary to protect our 2nd amendment" feels like a pretty good, ironic choice. If anything, I feel bad that so many people had to witness it and have that memory for the rest of their lives.

But then hearing that it happened at the same time as another school shooting in Colorado just feels so.....American. And you just know that Kirk's death is gonna get way more coverage, because this country hates kids anyway, so instead of the usual half day of mourning for victims of gun violence, they'll just skip right over it.
 
It sucks that no matter how you slice it, there's no relief.

That line of questioning before the shot. Vengeance, psy op, whatever. It's like having to stick your junk in a lawn mower or a meat grinder. It's worse he is dead, I think. This is a watershed.

Saw the former Utah congressman who witness the shot say "Utah is one of the safest places on the planet and so we just don’t have these types of things."

They trot that out any time, any place, any shooting.
 
joshsquash729 said:
That's how I found out. Saw the clip without any context before I'd heard the story and yeah- it's gnarly. Almost didn't look real, but it's amazing what the body can do.

Look, I don't wish harm on (almost) anyone. It certainly feels a bit weird to cheer for someone's death. But if it was gonna happen to anyone, the guy who says "a few deaths each year are necessary to protect our 2nd amendment" feels like a pretty good, ironic choice. If anything, I feel bad that so many people had to witness it and have that memory for the rest of their lives.

But then hearing that it happened at the same time as another school shooting in Colorado just feels so.....American. And you just know that Kirk's death is gonna get way more coverage, because this country hates kids anyway, so instead of the usual half day of mourning for victims of gun violence, they'll just skip right over it.
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Well, regarding him. As Trump said about the Iowa (?) shooting in January 2024 - "get over it."

I'm not cheering. I didn't put Celebrate Good Times. on my Instagram music highlight.

But I have the same amount of empathy for him as he has had about countless others.
 
I think, if anything, I'll be holding my breath until they find out who the real shooter was. If it's any sort of minority, they'll have a field day to end all field days. Hell, they'll probably blame it on (insert literally anything here) community until it's confirmed anyway. I don't necessarily see it being any sort of Republican, but stranger things have happened.

But let Trump be taught- that's what getting shot looks like, "graze" or not.
 
joshsquash729 said:
I think, if anything, I'll be holding my breath until they find out who the real shooter was. If it's any sort of minority, they'll have a field day to end all field days. Hell, they'll probably blame it on (insert literally anything here) community until it's confirmed anyway. I don't necessarily see it being any sort of Republican, but stranger things have happened.

But let Trump be taught- that's what getting shot looks like, "graze" or not.
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Exactly. I really hope its a straight white dude. Anything else is going to kick off Days of Future Past.
 
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